Homemade Mother’s Day Card – 2011

Mother’s Day caught me off-guard this year. All of a sudden on Tuesday I realized that since I was closed on Thursday and Friday I had to have a homemade Mother’s Day card and gift ready to send home on Wednesday.

Yikes!

I scoured my files and found the perfect homemade Mother’s Day card: a ladybug with wings that opened and closed, and a cutesy but not-too-cheesy poem.

Aren’t they adorable?!

G has been obsessed with ladybugs – or ” ‘ady buds” as she calls them – since last fall, so when I saw the ladybug card idea I knew I’d found this year’s homemade Mother’s Day card!

The original idea came from The Mailbox magazine – my favorite curriculum resource – but of course I put my own twist on it.

Instead of just copying the ladybug outline with text on a piece of paper and having the children make and add the wings, I cut out the ladybug body, typed up the text, and cut it into squares so the children could glue each component on the card themselves.

The rest of the directions I followed without change: I had each child paint fingerprint “spots” on the wings, then helped them attach the wings to the ladybug body with a brad when the paint was dry.

When we do our unit on bugs and insects I think we’ll make them again, but instead of background paper we’ll put them on tongue depressors to make ladybug puppets.

I can’t wait to see what G does with her ” ‘ady bud” puppet!

Did you make or receive a homemade Mother’s Day card this year? Tell me about it!

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Love it! At Mad’s birthday party we made caterpillars on tongue depressors (or “tongue press” as we have heard since). Fuzzy pom poms, pipe cleaners and glue dots. Voila (or, as I seem to read a lot lately, wah-la).

Thanks! I thought they were really cute too. Except I hung mine from Little Guy on the refrigerator and he keeps turning the wings all the way off the body and dancing around singing “Naked ladybug, naked ladybug!” LOL!